'About A Year Too Late,' White House Seeks To Expand At-Home Covid Testing - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

The Biden administration on Monday announced several steps aimed at making rapid, at-home Covid testing more widely available while lowering costs. Dr. Peter Hotez says that's a great thing — but that it is coming "a year too late." Aired on 10/25/2021.

[Bristlecone]

1. Better late than never. It's not like this is going away anytime soon

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Excellent point.

Too bad the administration didn't get on this a year ago, as he said - oh, wait, a year ago we had an administration which was recommending drinking bleach.

[Bristlecone]

5. And "shining very powerful light"

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Should have called it "COVID Testing for Trump Chumps Home Kits"

That'd be a special government handout just for them.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Now that would have sold!

[mountain grammy]

6. Colorado is providing free at home tests..

I emailed the Dept of Health, they sent me two test kits.. free of charge. The stores have been out of them for weeks and charged $23/kit. Love my guv.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Kudos to Colorado!

[Runningdawg]

7. I recently need a covid test

My Dr won't do them.
The local pharmacies won't do them if you have any symptoms.
There is a drive thru that only excepts $150 in cash, results in 3 days.
4-6 business days to make an apotiment for one at the Tulsa Co Health Department.
Calling around we found a handful of OTC home tests available for $75-100 results in 3 days.
So I spent 5 hours waiting in my car at the local minor emergency clinic and paid $300 to find out in 20 minutes I was negative.

This is BS. We MUST do better!!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Yikes! Sounds like this was long overdue!

At least the Biden administration is getting on it, there is so much to clean up after no action on the pandemic which was allowed to run rampant for over a year, it has taken time to catch up. *sigh*

[applegrove]

10. We do it in Canada. Great for a wedding weekend when you can test yourself right before

the day you travel. Some people who got tested at a pharmacy and were crossing the border missed their flight, I think, because the pharmacy test was too many days in advance of the flight. When you do an at home rapid antigen test the results are ready in fifteen minutes. I sneezed my ass off taking the sample but was pleased I did not have to go all the way up my nose with a swab to get my sample. There was an alternate set of instructions which were way easier but took longer inn botth nostrils. I got my rapid antigen tests x5 for $125.00 including FedeX shipping in 4 days.

[ShazamIam]

11. This was announced back on Oct. 6, (link below), and I don't think the tests were available 1 yr ago

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4980862/biden-administration-announces-1-billion-purchase-rapid-home-covid-19-tests

[AZSkiffyGeek]

12. They're widely available in Phoenix

My wife had a Covid scare over the weekend. No rapid testing available due to the hour, lines backed up for hours for regular tests at the ER. Went to Walgreens and got a home test, $25 for 2, results in 15 minutes (negative).